238 = Defeription of the Equus Hemionus * 
built. The rump is pretty ftraight and fomewhat fharp, as 
in the afs. As the body was fwelled up, the {pine was be- 
come bent into the form of a bow. 
The animal ftands high on its limbs, which are delicate, 
though its nrufcles are ftrong; but the fhoulders, thighs 
and legs are fomewhat meagre, like thofe of flight-formed 
mules. The fore legs, on the infide, have’a longith, round, 
bald, blackith fear, covercd with a tender, fomewhat hard 
and brittle fkin, which, at fome times of the year, may per- 
haps be covered by a corneous fubftance. In the common 
afs this fear is more of a round form. It was in length two 
mecehes feven lines, and in breadth one inch fix lines. On 
the hind legs no traces of fuch a fear were to befeen, The 
lower part of the leg is.perfectly fmooth, ornamented be- 
hind with a confiderable tuft of fhort hair: on the fore-fide 
inwards there is a black fpot, and outwards a faint mark 
near the before-mentioned tuft. On the hind feet there 
are two {mall faint fpots above it. The hoofs are very hard, 
dry, of a black colour, fmall, and almoft like a half cone ; 
roundifh above, and very hollow on the fole. The edges of 
all the hoofs exhibited traces of cracks which had grown up 
again. 
The tail was almoft like that of a cow; the trunk is 
thin, moderately long, perfectly round, quite bald from the 
rump to the middle; but the other part is covered with fhort 
briftles of the fame colour as the fides of the body. It is 
‘bufhy at the end, where it forms a black tuft, about nine 
inches in length. 
I found the winter hair on the fkin already mentioned to 
be two inches long, tolerably thick, as foft.as camel hair, 
and of an ifabella grey colour outwardly, but of a pale iron- 
grey towards the roots. ‘The fummer hair. en. the female, 
which I have defcribed, was fearcely three quarters of a line 
in length, here and there difpofed into circular arrangements 
(vortices) and fhadings, and on the back, never turned for- 
vwards as in the zebra. A fliading of the hair runs length- 
: wile 
